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You spent three months grinding the formulation, using the qsman VC, Wahe-hee hyaluronic acid, resulting in a month on the shelf, a yellowing of the product, a thinning of the face cream, a sharp rise in the number of complaints - not the problem at formulation, and at packaging materials.

Packaging materials is the "skin" of the product, with direct exposure to ointment, air isolation and transport shocks. Wrong packaging materials, it's like wearing a dress that doesn't fit: it looks okay, it crashes.

In this article, I will use the 5-step process category-type control table + 3 pits to help you build the decision-making framework selected by packaging materials from zero.

Step 1: Clarify the nature of the five packaging materials types

Don't rush to pick a good-looking one.

Summarizing: Glass = safe but stupid, PET = cheap but weak, vacuum pump = professional but expensive, tube = good but not perfect, double jar = excellent but luxury.

Step 2: Best mix of packaging materials - 5 products by production category

The demand for packaging materials varies from product to product. Do not select all packaging materials in the same line.

1. VC/ antioxidant

The biggest enemies of VC (whether L-VC or VCEE) are oxidation and light. The traditional dropper bottle allows air to enter every time it opens, and can see the colours get darker in a week.

Recommended options:

  • Vacuum pump vials: Press pressure to produce material, do not take back air, VC product first. Cost of $2-4 per person
  • Brown light-shield bottles: If the high end of brand positioning requires a glass sense, the brown (UV)+aluminium seal must be selected. Cost of $3-8 per person

Absolutely not: transparent glass dropper bottle -- this is VC colored killer number one.

2. High end face cream → double-layer glass tank

Face cream has a high degree of ointment viscosity and needs wide access. But the sealing of the wide can is short.

Recommended options:

  • Double glass tank (inner glass + outer decorator): chemical inertity + physic filling. Cost of $4-15 per person
  • Single-layer glass tank + aluminum seal: value for money scheme. Cost of $2-5 per person

Key details: The lids must be fitted with inner plugs (PE/EVA materials) and simply the seals are not enough.

3. toner / Precise water → PET or glass spray

Toner has low viscosity, high usage, need mist or drip experience.

Recommended options:

  • PET jet bottles: light, low cost, high capacity (100 ml+). Cost 0.5-2 per person
  • Glass sprayers: high-end sense, suitable for small volume fine water (30-50 ml). Cost of $2-5 per person

Note: For ethanol containing toner, the solvent resistance of PET material (option PET-G level) must be confirmed.

4. facial cleanser / facial cleanser tube

Facial cleanser is the simplest logic: tube is the only reasonable choice. Squeeze easily, seal well and cost least.

Recommended options:

  • Aluminium plastic complex tube: best barrier, best antioxidation respiration. Cost 0.5-1.5 per person
  • Full plastic tube (PE): lowest-cost, low-price products. Cost 0.2-0.8 per person

Pipe avoidance: Full plastic tube has respiration problems - the air is pumped back into the tube when squeezed. This problem can be largely eliminated by aluminium plastic complexes.

5. sensitive skin series → Vacuum pump bottle+mist

Sensitive skin product packaging materials requires the highest: stop secondary contamination. Traditional cans/bottles allow air and bacteria to enter the ointment every time they are used.

Recommended options:

  • Vacuum pump bottle: preferred for all sensitive skin fine/ face cream
  • Mist: toner product best option, ejected, not inhaled

Additional requirements: sensitive skin product packaging materials inner walls shall be free of residual plasticizer risk and select a food level PE/PP lining.

Step 3: Identify 3 key parameters that must be asked factory

Select packaging materials not just for appearance, these three parameters must be confirmed:

1. Compatibility test results

The compatibility of packaging materials and ointment is an invisible line of life and death. Incompatible consequences: ointment colour change, odor change, plastic bottle wall dissolves, seals fail.

Factory must be requested to provide:

  • Compatibility test report (anointed exposure to packaging materials 30 days/60 days/90 days of change)
  • Report on the detection of plastic agent residues (especially PE/PET material)

2. Sealability level

Seal level directly affects shelf life. Ask for seal test for factory:

3. MOQ and customization cycle

Packaging materials's MOQ and sampling lead time directly affect your listing rhythm:

Key alerts: MOQs printed by z (wireprint/burn/poster) are usually 2-3 times higher than empty bottles. New brands are proposed to use standard empty bottles + labelling schemes, with a cost reduction of 40-60 per cent.

Step 4: Cost disassembly - what is packaging materials in total OEM cost?

Many branders underestimated the cost of packaging materials. packaging materials usually accounts for 25-40 per cent of the total cost of OEM and sometimes even exceeds the cost of raw materials.

Cost optimization 3

  • Standard + sticker: 40-60 per cent packaging materials cost compared to full z
  • All purchases: the unit price of MOQ can be reduced by 15 to 30 per cent when it meets the standard by signing a bill with the same brand
  • Packaging materials recovery design: Some vacuum pump cylinders can be designed as "replacement core" models to reduce z costs

Step 5: Receiving and Inspection Checklist — Products must be inspected individually before they come out.

Upon arrival, the list is checked individually before the arrival of filling:

Packaging materials accepted Checklist

  • [ ] Appearance: no scratches, no bubbles, no colour differences (in contrast to sampling)
  • [ ] Dimension: Bottle diameter, bottle height, capacity error of 3 per cent
  • [ ] Sealability: 24 hours inverted without leakage; vacuum pump pressure without respiration
  • [ ] Quality of printing: silk print/scaling, no bias, colour difference of 5 per cent
  • [ ] Compatibility confirmation: 30-day/60-day compatibility test report from factory reviewed
  • [ ] Food class certification: internal liner material meets the GB 4806 food exposure material standards
  • [ ] Drop test: 1.2 m altitude dropped three times without rupture (blask exemption, except for fragmentation packaging)
  • [ ] Batch consistency: 5 per cent sample sampling, 95 per cent alignment of key parameters

3 most common pedestals x pit avoidance schemes

Pit 1: Looks like you don't look compatible.

Case: toner containing high concentration ethanol in a new brand, dissolved in the bottle wall three months later and the ointment smell changed.

Pit avoidance: ethanol, essential oil, high concentration acid product packaging materials must be tested for compatibility, with priority given to glass or food level PET-G.

Pipe 2: Standard MOQ is not enough. Forced to full z, double the cost.

Case: The first batch of brands was only 2,000, but the vacuum pump bottle standard MOQ, 3,000, was forced to print (MOQ 5000+), and the packaging materials cost went directly from $2.00 to $5.00.

Pocket avoidance: customization was replaced with a sticker programme for the previous period. The sticker MOQ is usually only 500-1000 and the cost increases are only 0.3-0.5 RMB.

Pit 3: Neglect of transport protection 15% drop-in rate +

Case: Glass bottled product shipped from Guangzhou to Beijing without a breakout package with a rate of 15 per cent and a loss of more than $20,000.

(b) Pipe avoidance: cylinders shall be filled with bubble cylinders/ pearl cotton; long-distance transportation shall select a break-proof logistics special line; 2% of the contract agreed to be covered by factory.

OEM packaging materials Select Decision Spacing

Condensed the five-step process into a table that is readily available:

  • OEM minimum order quantity complete guide resolution: 500, 1,000, 5,000
  • Formulation stability testing complete guide: Key points of OEM most easily ignored by brand owners
  • Which mines did OEM factory step on? Six screening questions to help you escape a hole.

Regarding QuickOEM: QuickOEM is a professional cosmetic OEM/ODM service platform that connects brand owners to quality factory resources. Select from formulation development, packaging materials to produce filling to provide a one-stop solution. Get to know more.

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